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Hi barefootlady, in answer to your question, probably long before you thought about Tech, giggle. 1979. How are things mixed up? I'm new to allnurses and I don't know what to say and what not to say.

Hey, I just noticed this was in the West Virginia forum. Don't know how I got here, but I graduated and took my state boards in West Virginia! Anybody go to WVU in Montgomery? Used to be called WVIT. I'm working in TN now and loving it!

My heart goes out to massage therapists. We'd live in a painful world with YOU! Next week in National Nursing Home Week so I'm going to see if she'll come out and do some at my facility! Thanks again for the idea

:typing sounds good to me. I've got a friend that is a massage therapist, now that I think of it! Wonder if she would do it for nothing? We'll see how good of a "friend" she is, ha!

I'm a DON at a small facility, I've got 10 nurses and an agency nurse (he's worked there, usually weeknds) for the past 3 years. Of course we've got a small budget and I'm in need of some ideas for Nurses Week (as well as CNA Week). Please share some ideas! I was thinking about baking a large sheet cake, decorating it and putting all their names on it so each could have a block with their name, perhaps gift cards to a local restaurant, and gift bags? :typing

i'm don of a small long term care facility in tennessee. if the narcotic count is not correct at shift change, the oncoming nurse should not take responsibility for someone's else's error and it should be corrected before the offgoing nurse leaves. our nurses pass medications to 43 residents and it is policy of our pharmacy (pharmerica) that the narcotics administered must be documented on the narcotic sheet upon removal from the cart, documented on the front of the mar (they're usually given prn) and on the back of the mar with explanation of the reason it was given and the effectiveness. how you're getting away with signing them out at the end of the shift of beyond me. this is asking for trouble not to mention increasing the risk for errors! recently 8 of our state surveyors went into a facility on a complaint, 2 of them each went to the 4 medication carts and said, "excuse me, we'd like to do a narcotic count." they, too, did not sign out their narcs until the end of the shift. needless to say, they were slapped with a violation. our pharmacy consultant comes once a month and does an extremely thorough mars audit, which i do randomly throughout the month. if i were the oncoming nurse, i'd refuse to accept narc keys or take report until the count was correct. has she not been investigated for this repeat occurance? maybe a random med pass observation by the don is indicated!